MARIOS PAVLOU
CIRCUIRS ON AIR
web radio project, 2015-2018
with Lefteris Krysallis, Kassiani Goulakou, Ioli Kavakou, Kyrill Constantinides Manolis Nikoloudis and Max Negrelli
CircuitsOnAir started as an artist project for the group exhibition Reality Though Fiction in Athens, October 2015. During the exhibition, the radio broadcasted fake news and advertisements indicating/presenting a future neo-liberal world, as well as sound pieces and live performances that were part of the exhibition. After the exhibition, CircuitsOnAir became the web radio of Circuits and Currents, the project space of the Athens School of Fine Arts. CoA was intended to be used as a medium for sound experimentation and exploration of the radio format while having an open to suggestions manifesto for features, collaborations and contributions . The main program included two regular shows every week, one transmitted from Athens and one from Munich. These two shows shared a similar structure, based on the concept of sound collage. The content of the shows expanded from musical improvisations and text readings to mainstream songs, Skype calls, live mixing etc. Furthermore, many pop-up shows covered events happening at the project space, broadcasting music or sound pieces from various artists and collectives.
Among them were: G(R)EEK CHORUS ENSEMBLE performance event with Jonathan Bepler at Circuits and Currents (2016), in athεns - Austrian Artist Residency hosted by Snehta Residency: Borjana Ventzislavova and Emanuel Ehgartner (2017), SPEICHER by Michaela Melián (2017) and more. Latest projects of CoA were the Tin-Can Radio Shows series, a series of prerecorded radio features from various contributors and one city, one exhibition which brought up issues concerning political art, exoticism, contemporary oral and aural traditions, the functioning of institutions and the influence of the arts in historical narratives.
